Moderna working on combined COVID, flu shot

WNYT Staff

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Moderna is working on a single shot booster to cover both coronavirus and the flu.

The company CEO says they hope to have a combined vaccine booster ready to test later this year.
Moderna is aiming to make about two to three billion doses this year and hopes to have data from a new vaccine tweaked to address the omicron variant in March.

Moderna hopes to have the combined vaccine ready for 2023.

Cole Smith receives a Moderna variant vaccine shot from clinical research nurse Tigisty Girmay at Emory University's Hope Clinic, on Wednesday afternoon, March 31, 2021, in Decatur, Ga.[AP Photo / Ben Gray]